How-to-Vote Cards

A lot of people have commented or hate the fact that they have to "run the gauntlet" when voting (trying to avoid people handing out How-to-Vote (HTV) cards).

When I have volunteered to hand out HTV cards, I have seen people do many different things to try and avoid "the gauntlet", including one man climbing over a fence to get in and out of the school where he was voting.

On the other side of the coin, many volunteers spend a lot of their time organizing and manning all the polling booths and trying to obey the numerous laws around it (Ie. How close you can be to the front gate).

I would like to remove the "the gauntlet" and the laws surrounding the HTV cards from Australian politics, and have one of the following:

• When the electoral worker gives you your ballot paper, they also give you all the HTV cards available to them from each of the candidates.
• When the electoral worker gives you your ballot paper, you may take one of each candidates HTV card available to you, on display at their table.
• Have no HTV cards, but instead have one corflute sign from each candidate displayed near the polling booths.

This will allow the public to have a more enjoyable time while voting, save the volunteers a lot of time and level the playing fields for all the candidates.